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Overview |
Main identification features
- dense denticles all disc and tail
- thorns: 1-2 rows, nape to tail
- top brown; edges white
Disc elongate oval; eyes relatively large (>1/3 space between them) pectorals continuous around head; tail slender; 1 large venomous spine on tail; no dorsal fins; tail length greater than disc length; tail fin elongate oval, upper and lower lobes not confluent; denticles and thorns with similar form - high, recurved cones with star bases; thorns regularly spaced along midback from nape to tail fin in 1-2 rows; denticles dense over entire disc and upper tail, densest between snout to midback, dense on front of upper lobe of tail fin.
(Preserved fish) top of disc, pelvics and tail dark grey-brown, with broad white edging; cream below with a brown stripe from pelvic fins to origin of tail spine.
Size: 27 cm (15 cm wide).
Habitat: soft bottom.
Depth: 2-15 m?.
The Gulf of Panama.
Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 15 m.
Depth Range Min: 2 m.
Diet: mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); bony fishes; mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves; octopus/squid/cuttlefish; mobile benthic worms.
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=9; Southern limit=8; Western limit=-81; Eastern limit=-78; Latitudinal range=1; Longitudinal range=3.
Egg Type: Live birth; No pelagic larva; No pelagic phase.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Demersal.
Global Endemism: Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species.
Habitat: Mud; Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove); Soft bottom only; Sand & gravel.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 27 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent only; Continent; TEP endemic; Continental TEP endemic; Panamic province endemic; All species.
Residency: Resident.
Salinity: Brackish; Marine.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;
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- Compagno, L.J.V., 1999., Checklist of living elasmobranchs. In Hamlett W.C. (ed.) Sharks, skates, and rays: the biology of elasmobranch fishes., The John Hopkins University Press:471-498.
- Fischer , W. , Krup , F. , Schneider , W. , Sommer , C. , Carpenter , K. E. and Niem, V. H., 1995., Guia FAO para la Identificacion de Especies de para los fines de la Pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental. Volumen II. Vertebrados - Parte 1., FAO2:647-1200.
- Miyake , T. and McEachran, J.D., 1988., Three new species of the stingray genus Urotyrgon (Myliobatiformes: Urolophidae) from the eastern Pacific., Bull. Mar. Sci., 42(3):366-375.
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